Mech recharger

See also: Large mech recharger

Mech recharger

Lightweight mechanoids can recharge here. During recharge, this recharger produces toxic wastepacks and stores them internally. Haulers must remove the wastepacks from time to time.

Base Stats

Type

Building – Biotech (Buildings)

Market Value

300  ^[Note]

Mass

25 kg

HP

150

Flammability

50%

Building

Size

3 × 1

Minifiable

False

Passability

pass through only

Power

-200 W

Creation

Required Research

Basic mechtech

Work To Make

8,000 ticks (2.22 mins)

Resources to make

125 + 1

Deconstruct yield

62 - 63 + 0 - 1

Destroy yield

31 - 32 + 0 - 1

Mech rechargers are buildings added by the Biotech DLC that allow the recharging of light mechanoids.

Acquisition

Mech rechargers can be constructed once the basic mechtech research project has been completed. Each requires  125 Steel,  1 Component and 8,000 ticks (2.22 mins) of work modified by the construction speed of the builder.

Once constructed, they cannot be re-installed, they can only be deconstructed.

Summary

Mech rechargers constantly require 200 W of direct, electrical power, even when not actively recharging a mech. They are placed on the ground and can't be minified, or uninstalled.

Mech rechargers can recharge light mechanoids. This includes:

• Militor
• Lifter
• Constructoid
• Fabricor
• Agrihand
• Cleansweeper
• Paramedic

A recharger gives the mechanoid 50% of their power need per day. This accumulates the recharger's waste meter. When a recharger is full of waste, a hauler can pick up 5 toxic wastepacks from the recharger. The exact amount of waste technically depends on the mechanoid, but all light mechanoids excrete 5 wastepacks. The existence of waste does not stop the recharger.

Suitable mechs will seek a recharger once reaching a configurable amount of charge, and a control group of mechs can be commanded to recharge (or avoid recharging) at will.

Analysis

As active mechs use 10% of their power per day, and this structure recharges at a rate of 50% per day, theoretically a single mech recharger can support five always-active mechs. In practice this number will always be lower due to non-optimal utilization, but you can comfortably have several times fewer mech rechargers than mechs.

For colonies that utilize mostly combat mechs, which often spend most of their time dormant and self charging, this ratio can be even better. Dormant mechs recharge at a rate of 1% per day, meaning that combat mechs can be left without using a recharger at all except when heavily damaged and repaired.

Repaired mechs can then use the recharger on an as needed basis. The final ratio of rechargers to mechs will depend on your raid frequency and the frequency with which your mechs get damaged, but is almost always significantly less than always active mechs.

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - Added.
• 1.4.3528 - Fix: Mech charger exceeding 100% full of waste if partially emptied.
• 1.4.3563 - Fix: Infinite loop of hauling mech to charger outside the mech's allowed area.

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Architect

Biotech

Band node • Growth vat • Mech booster • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish • Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mech recharger • Large mech recharger • Pollution pump • Subcore encoder • Subcore softscanner • Subcore ripscanner • Wastepack atomizer

Deathrest

Deathrest casket • Deathrest accelerator • Hemogen amplifier • Hemopump • Glucosoid pump • Psychofluid pump

Genetics

Gene assembler • Gene bank • Gene extractor • Gene processor